I'd like to ask you, since this is the first time
I've ever been asked who funds me, who funds you, Dr.
Kennedy? Who funds you, Dr. Watkins and Lurie and Huberto
Garza who's listening on the telephone?

Dr. Kennedy, you said that this is an open and
transparent process. Americans know how transparent it is.

Ms. Lurie, you said there's a history of
collaboration.

Dr. Watkins, you travel America speaking to
trade organizations. It's on the internet. Native
American, you go to South Dakota and North Dakota to Indian
Reservations and tell them how they need more milk and
cheese and you're going to give it to them.

This is a transparent process.

We know, Dr. Kennedy, that you're on the Board of
Directors of a research organization funded by Dannon
Yogurt.

We know Huberto Garza, that you get $500,000 a year
from USDA as a line item. At Cornell University you
work for the Dairy Council. And Joanna Dwyer who worked on
this food dietary guideline committee worked for the dairy
industry as did Rachel Johnson and Roland Weinster and
Richard Deckelbaum and it goes on and on, Scott Grundy. All
connections to the dairy industry. What's going on here?

The first part, I want to tell you that we're not
pleased about these conflicts of interest.
I sat with the Vice President of the United States
yesterday and with Senator Barbara Boxer, and we're all not
pleased about these conflicts of interest.

Can't you come up with a committee that doesn't
have these conflicts?

Milk. Eighty percent of milk protein is a
substance called casein, C-A-S-E-I-N. That's the glue they
use to hold together the wood in this podium. You eat
casein you produce histamines you make mucous. We've got
soaring rates of asthma and diabetes, breast cancer.

The New York Times last week had a full page
article in their science section that breast cancer rates in
women are soaring. Thousands of things cause breast cancer.
The key factor in its growth, the only hormone in nature
exactly alike between two species, IgF-1 human and cow, has
been identified as the key factor in breast cancer.

We've got our children in the schools. You talk
about cholesterol and animal fats. You know they're
dangerous. You take the combined intake of dietary
cholesterol from cheese, milk, butter, ice cream, for the
average American its equal to the same amount of cholesterol
contained in 53 slices of bacon. That's today's intake.
That's, 19,345 slices a year. By age 52 the same
cholesterol in a million slices of bacon.

You've got to examine, you've got a hearing, an
obesity hearing coming up in America and you've got to
examine the 29.2 ounces a day or 666 pounds per American of
milk and dairy products that we're eating and how intolerant
that is, especially to African Americans.

Robert Cade, University of Florida, attributed one
natural hormone in milk - casomorphine as the reason for
attention deficit disorder and autism. One out of three
kids in our Washington schools are on ritalin.

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

DEPUTY UNDERSECRETARY KENNEDY: Thank you, Mr. Cohen.

And the one question you directed to us, I will answer.
We are funded by the American taxpayer.